I took my first ride with my new GPS... I put in the Scarsdale train station as my destination, I figured that was far enough to get me home in an hour, I was off by about 5 minutes. The GPS put me on the same roads that I was already using on past rides. Now you might think that the GPS is useless then, but to the contrary, it showed me that it guides me on quiet roads with very little traffic and very little hills... the same roads it took me months to find. So therefore when I want to go somewhere new, I can somewhat trust it to put me on a bicycle friendly route... I say somewhat, because no system is perfect and nothing can replace common sense and street smarts.
A few things I need to fix before my next ride...
-I need to adjust the screen brightness to make it more readable in the sunlight.
-I need to have it stop scrolling from page to page when I'm rolling, because when you look down it's never on the page you want... although I noticed that when you need to make a turn ahead it stays on that page until you turn.
-I need to set up the data fields to put the information that's most important to me where I can view it easily.
They improved a few things over my last model... they have a more conservative estimate of how many calories you've spent, I'd say it's about 50% of what they used to estimate, I think it's more accurate now... and the same with the elevation data... it's also more conservative and probably more accurate.
One thing that went wrong, when I tried to set the navigation for the way back the screen froze and it stayed frozen all the way home... probably because of my impatient pressing on the screen... I didn't want to reset for fear of losing all the data, but when I uploaded the ride to the computer, it was all there.
So overall I'm pleased with the new toy... I just gotta configure it to my way of thinking... Gotta run, later all.
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